SIMULTANEOUS EVENTS OF GERMAN EXPANSION —While Slovakia signed away her independence after the break-up of Czechoslovakia, the German sympathizers who lived in Memel were anxiously awaiting the arrival of Herr Hitler to make a triumphal entry after the cession of the former German territory back to the Reich by Lithuania under duress. Left: MemelGermans waiting on the Memel side of the barrier of the Queen Louise Bridge Tilsit, to greet Herr men sign-and the cession is affected... M. Joseph Urbsys (left), Lithuanian Foreign Minister, and Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of Germany, signing the agreement which returned Memelland to the Reich
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 17 April 1939, Page 8
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102SIMULTANEOUS EVENTS OF GERMAN EXPANSION —While Slovakia signed away her independence after the break-up of Czechoslovakia, the German sympathizers who lived in Memel were anxiously awaiting the arrival of Herr Hitler to make a triumphal entry after the cession of the former German territory back to the Reich by Lithuania under duress. Left: Memel-Germans waiting on the Memel side of the barrier of the Queen Louise Bridge Tilsit, to greet Herr men sign-and the cession is affected... M. Joseph Urbsys (left), Lithuanian Foreign Minister, and Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of Germany, signing the agreement which returned Memelland to the Reich Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 17 April 1939, Page 8
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